2,914 Quotes About Memory

As long as Simon didn’t think about the past, the past couldn’t hurt him. But, increasingly, he couldn’t help himself.There was too much pleasure in the pain.

Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always

I now know how your angercame from skeletonsthat rattled in your heartand you couldn't escape them.

beneath the caged flutter of hopefear blooms in the liver as a spearwhere memory burns its feveracross the spoke of my body

Everything that came before today is a rorshach'd survival stain. That is, memories are like lovers; they never really leave us.

But I will relate what happened with absolute honesty; that, perhaps, will help me understand it. After all, when one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a person that observes and narrates it and no longer the person that performed it.

The most terrible things can happen to a man, but he’ll never lose himself if he remembers he was once a child.

i reach for the glassopen my mouthand try to drowntheir memoryfrom the inside out

Emotions retain a timeless photographic memory. Good or bad, you can never forget how a person makes you feel.